CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 33, 3 September 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

*: -[Jy; Elec&c TaMrtph.--C^ytikrf^ v* . . £j; CBKUTEBJB TBtK(>BAHi.T £' j.-\/£ j i. , i;- ; /jLon^n, August 3(X / ■;&* Saul SamueVAgan^d^tt^ii for New South Wales, is forwarding to' his Government at Sydney a proposal which has been submitted, to him f or the exter- I mination* of rabbits. the-^ : C6l(> n^B^ replying to the protest of the Victorian k Agent- Oenisral against the encroachment ! of the New Hebrides Company on the J^bj^eriajLttM^VOttJUkth^ stated that, the/ matter „ is. receiving the attenfionpf the> foreign Secjetaiy/ ! Replying to a quesfaon in the Commons to-day, thej.UndSr^Seisr^Btary for For-: eign Affairs sfaiedTthat the UnitedStatee Government had agreed . to ,the-ajppoint^ inent of a new commission fcritw J se|fcler ment of the fisherT dispute, and Mf JV . Chamberlain would : b« appointed' pnncipaL British commissioner. - ', [i ; . - The election to fill the yacancy in the P^irliamenttfry representation of North I Huntingdonshire caused by the elevation j 6t l Mt\ Fellows to the peerage, resulted -in the election of Mr Ailwyn Feltowes, a Conservative by 2,700 votes against 2,400 [.polled -by- Mr- Sanders; a supporter of -Gladstone. -r-:\ ■*;-.. \ .:-..;■ ;•■?•.- " ; :'..■;' ':■-■' \,.''. : r '■■:'■'-.' '■■■ ; SSsptemberl. The commission appomted for the settlement of the fishing dispute will consist of six members, of whom two will be representatives of Canada. Mr Chamberlain will be Gbief British Commissioner, and proceeds, to Canada forthwith. ; . The directors of the Bank ol [England tb-day"raised the rate of discount to 4 'percent. -■ '; ;■■;■;•-•■; '';T ■'-.'["''.'' X V The BankofEogland's weekly returns iboif the total reserves in hptet and bullion to be £11,7000,000, a decrease of £100,000 during the week. : --y- • ; -M-r t : '■/ ISOFIA, AugVSt 31. ; ; ..-.; The Cabinet of Stouloff, who recently tendered his resignation, will continue in office until after the elections to the new Sobranje, which takes place next month; CAtcutTA, August 31 . Lateit reports from Afghaniitan confirm the previous statement received to the Ameer's ill-health. The neiri to hand .further states that there is now two factions m Cabul, one favoring Jo Ayoub Khan, aad the other to : Ishak £hon, and both pretenders hare been urgnd by their supporters to come to Cabal. - ..;.